Skip to content

Research Agenda

LABMUNDO Rio

International Development Cooperation

Objective: To analyse the role of the different actors of international development cooperation (domestic and international players, multilateral and bilateral agencies, state and non-governmental organisations, private foundations and social movements) in the construction of agendas and their contestation, programme implementation, definition and diffusion of norms, focused on cases of North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation.

Comparing Brazil and Emerging Powers

Objective: To explore, via comparative analysis, the foreign policy and the international integration of Southern emerging powers (South Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey) and their role in international regimes (security, development, trade, etc.) and in processes that aim at the reform of global decision-making architecture (UN, G-20, IMF). Based on their respective development models, multilateral experiences, domestic policies and regional integration patterns, to understand the forms and the reasons why they mobilize their resources of power, define alliances and coalitions.

Climate change and human rights in international politics

Objective: To analyse contemporary agendas related to climate change and human rights, with an emphasis on tensions between public and private interests, as well as the interplay between domestic and international dimensions in the definition of regulatory mechanisms (public, market and social). Analyse the role of international organizations in the construction and dissemination of norms, as well as their influence on the domestic agendas of States. Understand the role of civil society organisations, activism networks and social movements in OI-market and OI-State relations. Understand how regional and emerging powers deal with human rights and climate change into their respective foreign policies, as well as the process of reforming global governance institutions in response to the emergence and institutionalization of such issues in contemporary multilateralism.

LABMUNDO Bahia

Internationalisation of capital, Development and Cooperation

Objective: To develop studies on the processes of internationalisation of capital verified in the new asymmetrically positioned socio-economic cartographies. From the perspective of developing countries, to analyse relations of cooperation and global governance, especially Brazil’s relations with China and countries on the African continent.
Researchers: Elsa Sousa Kraychete, Elga Lessa de Almeida, Maria Cândida Arrais de Miranda Mousinho and Rubenilda Sodré dos Santos.

International Migration, Nationalities and Rights

Objective: To develop studies on migration and refuge in a contemporary and historical perspective, with an emphasis on South-South migratory displacements, the formative processes of Brazil and Brazilian foreign policy.
Researchers: José Sacchetta Ramos Mendes and Lopes Trigo.

International Organisations and Global Governance

Objective: To understand the role of international organisations in the constitution of regimes and systems of global governance, with an emphasis on socio-environmental, climate and human rights issues from the South. The line has a theoretical and empirical dimension, developing concepts such as democracy, climate justice, the global public sphere, transnational civil society, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship.
Researchers: Denise Vitale, Danielle Hanna Rached, José Célio Silveira Andrade, Priscila Spécie and Camila Villard Duran.